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posted: Jan 14, 2010
Workshop with
Brainerd Blyden-Taylor
Brainerd Blyden-Taylor works with Winnipeg's Prairie Voices
Sunday, January 31, 2010
1:30 -3:30 PM
Westworth United Church, 1750 Grosvenor Avenue
$15
Reserve your place by calling the MCA Office (204) 942-6037 or eMail
More about Brainerd Blyden-Taylor
Founder & Artistic Director of the Nathaniel Dett Chorale
Born: Trinidad & Tobago
In Canada since: 1973
Brainerd Blyden-Taylor is the founder, Artistic Director and conductor of The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Canada's first professional chamber choir dedicated to the creation and performance of Afrocentric music of all styles. Born in Trinidad & Tobago, Mr. Blyden-Taylor immigrated to Canada in 1973. He founded The Chorale in 1998, in response to a musical void in Canada; there had never before been a professional ensemble dedicated to the dissemination of Afrocentric choral music. The response that The Chorale has received in Canada and the United States since its inception has certainly given credence to Mr. Blyden-Taylor's vision.
Mr. Blyden-Taylor works frequently as a guest conductor, having appeared with organizations such as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, the Hannaford Street Silver Band, Nova Scotia Youth Choir, Ontario Youth Choir and the New Brunswick Choral Federation Youth Sing. He has recently completed a 25-year tenure with The Orpheus Choir of Toronto, and he has also worked as a conductor, artistic director and artistic advisor for the Nova Scotia Mass Choir and the Algoma Festival Choir.
Mr. Blyden-Taylor has been a member of the teaching staff at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. He is also a Master Teacher with the Toronto Board of Education, coaching teachers and students in conducting and choral technique. In constant demand as a clinician, adjudicator and lecturer, past engagements have included the Conference on Black Musics in Canada - York University, Toronto; Canadian Rocky Mountain Festival - Banff, Alberta; Tempo 2003 Manitoba Music Conference; Minister's Conference & Organist and Choir Director's Guild Workshop - Hampton University, Virginia; Festival 500, Newfoundland; Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festival; National Association of Negro Musicians Conference - Detroit, Michigan; and Manitoba Choirfest.
In addition, Mr. Blyden-Taylor is an active church musician, currently serving as Music Director of St. Timothy's Anglican Church, North Toronto. He has also been an artistic advisor to the Roots Festival in the municipality of Chatham-Kent, Ontario.
posted: Dec 21, 2009
Nathaniel Dett Chorale in Concert
Sunday, January 31, 2010
7:30 PM at Westworth United Church, 1750 Grosvenor, Winnipeg MB
Presented by MCA
More info here
posted: Dec 19, 2009
Winnipeg School Choirs Singing Anthem at Olympic Torch Relay
As reported by ChrisD.ca
Winnipeg News and Media from Manitoba, Canada
Two Winnipeg school choirs have been chosen to sing the national anthem when the Olympic Torch Relay comes to Winnipeg next month.
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École Stanley Knowles and Montrose School choirs will sing “O Canada” at Winnipeg’s Olympic Torch Relay Celebration, Mayor Sam Katz said Thursday.
The choirs will sing at The Forks National Historic Site on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, beginning at 5:00 p.m.
School choirs from across the city competed for the honour by sending in video auditions.
Winnipeg’s Olympic Torch Relay celebration is part of the cross-Canada relay bringing the Olympic Flame to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, B.C.
Further information regarding Winnipeg’s celebrations can be found online.
posted: Dec 8, 2009
Experience the Harmony at Podium 2010!
May 20 - 24, 2010
Delta Bessborough, Saskatoon, SK
Join renowned choral conductors, music directors, composers, choirs and leading industry representa- tives to experience the Canadian Choral Scene.
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posted: Nov 6, 2009
Fall Greetings from the President of ACCC
Debra Cairns
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I am delighted to share with you an exciting new project of ACCC—the National Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs! This past June CBC announced that it was stepping down from administering the popular biennial CBC National Radio Competition for Amateur Choirs. Alarmed at this announcement, recognizing its profound value for the Canadian choral community, and wanting to ensure that there be a continuance of a national competition to serve, promote and honour our choral musicians, I am pleased to announce that ACCC has taken it over and is working in collaboration with and support of the Canada Council for the Arts/Conseil des Arts du Canada and CBC/Radio-Canada to present the 2010 competition, newly-named as the National Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs. The application guidelines and procedures, competition categories, adjudication levels remain fundamentally the same. Minor adjustments to prizes and some aspects of running the competition have been made in order to accommodate financial considerations resulting from taking on such a significant project more than half way through its normal organizational and financial cycle. The deadline for submission of applications is midnight February 12, 2010. I encourage you to be an important part of the continuance of this outstanding choral tradition! Please visit our website (www.choralcanada.org) for further information and to download the application forms. I look forward to hearing your choir in the competition!
Did you know that there are an estimated 38,000 choristers, conductors, composers and choral industry people who are members of their provincial and national choral organizations? No doubt there are several more choral practitioners who are not yet members of their provincial and national choral organizations, thus making the overall number of people involved in choral music making in Canada impressively large. Over the next five years, your Association of Canadian Choral Communities (ACCC) will be conducting a choral census in order to determine more precisely the number of people involved in the choral art in Canada.
Our national biennial conference, Podium 2010. Experience the Harmony, is being held May 20-23, 2010 in Saskatoon. It promises a broad array of interest sessions and concerts by outstanding national and international choral practitioners and ensembles. I look forward to seeing you there! Please consider submitting nominations for the national awards for outstanding contributions to the Canadian choral community (choral publication, choral work, choral recording, innovative sponsorship, choral event, distinguished service, student essay [new]) to be awarded at Podium 2010. Further information about guidelines and deadlines can be found on our website www.choralcanada.org.
Consider serving on the Board of ACCC by allowing your name to stand or nominating someone else for the position of President Elect. Let your voice be heard! For further information please visit our website www.choralcanada.org.
We hope you are enjoying our monthly e-newsletter, Choral Bytes. Through it we are working towards connecting the vast Canadian choral community by providing national and international news and events, links and information which may be of interest to and helpful for you.
In collaboration with your provincial choral organization, we are your voice for celebrating, serving and promoting choral music in Canada!
Best wishes for rewarding music making in the months ahead!
Sincerely,
Debra Cairns
posted: Aug 5, 2009
New Concert Choir at the University of Manitoba
Co-directed by: Ed and Millie Hildebrand
Starting Sept 16, 2009 - Wednesdays from 5:30 - 7:30pm
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The Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music is pleased to invite students, faculty and community members to take their place in the all-new University Concert Choir! The choir will be co-directed by long-standing music educators Ed and Millie Hildebrand, known throughout the province for their extensive involvement in promoting and developing music for all ages.
The choir will rehearse on campus on Wednesdays from 5:30 - 7:30pm, starting Sept. 16, 2009.
Contact Ed and Millie by eMail
For more information visit this website.
posted: April 27, 2009
National Youth Choir
A biennial project of the Association of Canadian Choral Communities
National Youth Choir 2010 will take place in Saskatchewan (in conjunction with Podium 2010), 8-23 May 2010. This acclaimed youth choir, consisting of a quartet of singers from every province in Canada, will gather for a week-long residency with guest conductor Dr. Victoria Meredith of the University of Western Ontario before embarking on a tour of the province of Saskatchewan, culminating in a gala final performance at Podium 2010 in Saskatoon.
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If you are between the ages of 18 and 25 as of May 2010, you could be part of the NationalYout Choir. All travel, accommodation and meal costs will be covered by the NYC organizing committee. Audition and tuition fees may apply.
For more information (in Manitoba) contact:
Robert Neufeld, Exeutive Director of MCA
5-276 Marion Street, Winnipeg MB R2H 0T7
(204) 942-6037 or eMail
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Sep 22, 2008
Together at Last
from: The Manitoba Music Educator (MMEA)
This fall heralds a new chapter for a united Manitoba Music Educators Association all provincial music groups have joined together to create one voice. The Manitoba Orff Chapter, Manitoba Classroom Guitar Association, Manitoba Choral Association and the Manitoba Band Association have united with the MMEA to make all of us stronger. The first advocacy letter to the government was sent in January by our new president regarding the new physical education credit requirements and its possible impact to music programs. In June, our president and two board members met with the Minister of Education to establish open dialogue.
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We are United to make one song that can ring out across the province and our nation. As one group we can develop and implement stronger advocacy statements and take greater action.
Now is the time for collaborations not only during meetings but also at concert time.
We’ve changed formats this issue to allow four mailings to allow for mailings to all our members. Look for our next newsletter at the end of October
Aug 15, 2008
A Message from the President of the Association of Canadian Choral Communities (ACCC)
It is with pleasure that I write this message to let you know about the exciting things that are happening with your Canadian choral organization, ACCC. Formerly known as the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors, the general membership voted in May to change the name to the Association of Canadian Choral Communities.
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This name change better reflects the direction in which we are heading to become a stronger voice for choral music across Canada and to expand our mandate to serve not only conductors, but all those involved in creating choral music in Canada: singers, composers, educators, publishers, businesses and institutions, audience members, supporters of the choral art. We are also in the process of restructuring our Board to be more effective in serving the Canadian choral community. The general memberships is voting on this over the summer and we expect that by September our new Board structure will be in place. Throughout this process we have been working closely with each Provincial Choral Organization and are delighted that the PCO Executive Directors will be part of the new Board,
Also in progress is the creation of a new logo, updating and expanding the website (www.choralcanada.org), and increasing our communication with and services to the Canadian choral community. This is an exciting time of transition and growth.
For those of you who are already ACCC members, we hope that this news is as exciting to you as it is to us! For those of you who may not be an ACCC member, I invite you to visit our website to learn more about us. Amongst other things, our membership benefits include receiving our magazine "Anacrusis" (articles of choral interest, CD and music reviews, advertising, and more!),Canadian Choral Repertoire books (4 volumes now available for purchase), and ACCC Membership Directory, all of which complement the offerings of your Provincial Choral Organization.
Did you know that there are currently some 38,000 people in Canada who are involved in a choir that belongs to a provincial choral federation, or who have an individual membership in ACCC? We are indeed a large, diverse and vibrant Canadian Choral Community!
I wish you continued fulfillment in your choral pursuits this upcoming season, and I look forward to serving you and hearing from you on choral matters.
Sincerely, Debra Cairns President, ACCC email
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